Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula Moscow annexed in 2014, yesterday on a trip quickly denounced by Kiev as a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty.He made a stop at the legendary Artek holiday camp for young people, dating from Soviet times, on the shores of the Black Sea, the Kremlin said in a...

It’s no secret that US consumers have a seemingly insatiable appetite for organic food. What they might not realise is some of the product doesn’t always live up to its billing – and that’s driving regulators to tighten rules on incoming shipments.While the US is the world’s largest corn and soybean producer, only a small...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday visited Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula Moscow annexed in 2014, a trip quickly denounced by Kiev as a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty. Putin made a stop at the legendary Artek holiday camp for young people, dating from Soviet times, on the shores of the Black Sea, the Kremlin said in a...

Gazprom PJSC is in talks to ramp up natural gas sales in the UK as coal plants are shuttered and the nation’s biggest storage site is closed for good.“We see an appetite from major players in the UK for additional volume of contracted gas,” deputy chief executive officer Alexander Medvedev said in an interview in Prague on Thursday,...

American senators overwhelmingly voted for strict sanctions on Russia over what they call Moscow’s interference in the US 2016 presidential election as well as its alleged role in the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source:...

President Emmanuel Macron is starting to realign France’s foreign policy, setting out plans to be less interventionist in conflicts abroad and putting his country’s national security at the heart of diplomacy.When Macron, 39, took office just over a month ago, he was widely expected to put the emphasis on continuity in foreign policy,...